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Calvin Coolidge: It becomes a bestowal of favors on certain localities and naturally if one locality is to be favored, all the other…

On the recordApril 9, 1928
It becomes a bestowal of favors on certain localities and naturally if one locality is to be favored, all the other localities in the United States think that they ought to come in under the same plan and have their floods taken care of.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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